Revell

• Social media has created a number of crazes recently under the theme of “wellness” and the latest, it seems, is “bed rotting”.
• In fact, well before TikTok and Instagram, the Victorians were already turning the concept of languishing in bed into a fine art.
• An expert in the uncanny explains Lucky girl syndrome: the potential dark side of TikTok’s extreme positive thinking trend

Good for the soul

• This emphasises just how transgressive it is for a woman simply to do nothing and go nowhere.
• Yet in describing these trends in grim terms, social media has somehow romanticised the idea.
• This romanticising is similar to perspective taken by 19th century artists of the “bed rotting” women of their era.
• Being in bed is literally good for the soul.

Making a statement

• Parts of her 1855 novel North and South embody the thoughts and feelings behind the trend.
• Two women bed-rot in North and South: mill-worker Bessy and the middle-class mother of protagonist Margaret Hale.
• Bessy’s retreat to bed, enforced by the physical damage of employment, turns her into something almost saintly.
• What is noticeable about all of these examples, modern and Victorian, is that it focuses on the woman alone in her bed.
• Bed rotting is presented as a personal, private act of self-care, but it’s actually quite a public statement – as Gaskell presented Bessy’s death as a statement against industrial exploitation.

• SIMI VALLEY, Calif., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Postal Service issued a commemorative Forever stamp celebrating the life of former First Lady Nancy Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA.
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• The Nancy Reagan stamp art is a detail from the official 1987 White House portrait by Aaron Shikler the full-body portrait was cropped to accommodate the stamp format.
• The Nancy Reagan Forever stamp is being issued in panes of 20.

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